Doesnt pulling Hazmat loads require a lot more work?

Well then I am glad I live in my state, and only have to renew my hazmat every 5 yrs with my license.

I think with the finger-printing, hazmat written test, and CDL renewal, costs me about (under) $200. for 5 years? And I use that at tax time as a job related expense. What is that, $40 per year?

Frankly, I think that once any of us PASS the background check, we should NOT need to be finger-printed each time. All we should "have to do", is get a police background check on us, and here in my state, that is $5.00

How do our finger-prints change from the last time? The TSA should have a data base of prints, no?

 

Same here my hazmat don't expire till 2018.

 

With your exp you probably seen no hazmat routes and must take the bypass like Indy.All the major cities I would plan a second route incase they sre hazmat restricted.Of course watch those tunnels.Always make sure you have the right placards for the load and ask the shipper to give you a couple extra placards.Your company may have hazmat briefing and if so make sure you call them otherwise you could get fired for it.Its actually a good thing to have.They make sure you have the right placards, everything on the bill is correct and what routes not to take.You call briefing after you pick up the load and bills are in your hand.

 

TSA and homeland security, who administer hazmat and twic only require renewing every 5 years.

 

Doesnt necessarily pay more but I do expedited. No extra pay, just more loads. Hauling a drum of paint may be a HM load, no biggie, I just drive nice and easy.. but the guy that had a car hit him a few months ago was hauling corrosives. Load spilled, ate the tarmac. I had a nice 12 hr wait along with everyone else while they cleaned up and then repaved that part of the road. I lucked out, managed to squeeze into a legal parking space at a rest stop.
Policy with the company... get loaded, put on stickers, then call HM at company and verify phone numbers, items, etc. I also have clear sticky tape if the HM placards are not adhesive backed.

 

Hauling the ingredients to make Coca Cola is a hazmat load.....
NC is every 5 years too. I just took and passed the test....
automatic .02 raise and an additional .05 on any placarded load...
and the company paid for it... Totally worth it

 

I just got my hazmat in Texas. I did the computer (written) test and then went and got my finger prints/background check done. It's every 2 years in Texas. I have never hauled hazmat and don't plan on it right now but I figured why not get it. Got doubles and tries at the same time just for the heck of it. You never know I may use them and now I got the. Just for the heck of it.

 

When you get your CDL there's a few extra steps you'll have to take to allow you to drive with Hazmat. The actual driving is not that much different except for a couple of extra requirements of you with Hazmat. Like the RR crossings and such. The big difference is knowing the product. You're required to know what that product will do in spills, fires, and loading-marking. There's a manual that OTR drivers hardly see because they use the FMCSR (which also needs to go to the Federal Register to become legal) for most all of their rules and regulations. But the CFR-49 Transportation parts 100-177 has more detailed requirements and a few that's not in the FMCSR regarding Hazmat. It's also in the Federal Register and is used by the legal people more than any others for rule or regulations. That's where you'll find all the placarding and marking for all Hazmat loads. It gets down to details to the construction of shipping containers and tanks and such. It will cover any requirement that a driver is ultimately responsible for. This is the book that the opposing lawyer will drop in your lap and ask why you didn't follow requirement §such and such when hauling Hazmat.

 

Hmmmm, I know that's not the policy of Indiana; pass the test, it's valid for six months, if you pass the Risk Assessment in that six month period, you can then have the HazMat endorsement placed on your license.

Perhaps the issue is the test is hand-graded? What does it matter to the staff if the computer-graded test expires? Not so much effort from the staff to facilitate a second test, but a hand-graded test requires a few minutes of effort to grade and record the results. Not saying the staff is lazy, perhaps overworked

Indiana's endorsement written tests are administered by computer; much less effort on the staff's part.